Merhaba Tigrinya vs eGeez
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Merhaba Tigrinya
Learn to read and write Tigrinya with this interactive educational app. It uses animated letters, images, and audio to teach alphabets, reading, spelling, and word puzzles. Designed for beginners and children, it offers a fun and engaging learning experience.
- Interactive alphabet learning
- Audio and visual aids
- Reading and spelling games
- Word puzzles
- Progressive difficulty levels
- Safe learning environment
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Our interactive educational app provides a comprehensive curriculum that helps build skills to read and write in Tigrinya. Merhaba! Thank you for considering Merhaba Tigrinya as a resource to learn to read and write in Tigrinya. Merhaba Tigrinya app is designed to make learning alphabets, reading and writing Tigrinya fun and interactive. Is it not time to give Eritrean children modern learning tools so that they can read and write in Tigrinya? With the help of animated letters, rich images and audio, a user will be able to go from learning letters/syllables to being confident with reading and writing full words and sentences in Tigrinya. With numerous helpful hints along the way, even beginners will be able to learn to read and write Tigrinya. Learning in Merhaba Tigrinya app is grouped in five categories: ALPHABET: Users are introduced to each fidel alphabet and the sound corresponding to each alphabet and a word associated with that alphabet. In addition, to teach users the order of the alphabet family, a user is given a game to sort randomly ordered alphabet family in its proper order. Animated ordering of random letters will help users memorize the names of all the alphabets as well as the sound they make. LISTENING: Users will be presented with a game where each alphabet family is presented in a random order. The sound of each alphabet family will sound in order and the user is tasked to identify the right alphabet by clicking it. This section will help users identify the sound of each alphabet and reinforce learning the alphabets. Auditory learning of the alphabets will help users memorize the phonetic sound of all the alphabets and facilitate the learning process of reading and writing. READING: After learning an alphabet family, the user will get an opportunity in this section to identify words that start with specific alphabets. User will be presented with a multiple choice option game of alphabets and words that utilizes those alphabets. As the user progresses in the game, the multiple choice options will increase in difficulty. SPELLING: After learning an alphabet family and completing the Listening and Reading and section, the user will get an opportunity to combine letters into simple words. Image and audio are presented alongside spelling to provide hints to the user. As the user progresses in the game, the spelling options will increase in difficulty. WORD PUZZLE: Finally when the user have mastered the 32 levels of alphabets, and each of the above categories, the user gets to play the Tigrinya word puzzles. There are several levels of word puzzles with varying difficulty. Merhaba Tigrinya learning app is a safe environment for children and all users. There is no advertising or ability for an external party to contact your child.
eGeez
This app makes learning the Geez alphabet an engaging adventure for children. Guided by a friendly lion cub, kids explore letter families through interactive mini-games and 3D adventures. Families can personalize the learning experience with custom voice recordings and share progress.
- Interactive alphabet learning journey
- Mini-games for each letter family
- 3D adventure modes
- Daily letter hunts and rewards
- Family voice recording for personalized learning
- Offline functionality
- Parent and teacher dashboard
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eGeez turns learning the Geez alphabet into an adventure. Anbessa the lion cub guides children along a journey through all 33 letter families and 231 letters of the fidel - the script used by Amharic and Tigrinya. Every letter is voiced by a real human recording. FOR KIDS - A winding journey with exactly one next step - no menus to get lost in - Six mini-games per letter family: pop bubbles, trace letters, feed Anbessa, outsmart Jibby the hyena - 3D adventures: Letter Runner across Lalibela, Aksum, the Simien mountains and Gondar, and Fidel Skylands floating islands - A Daily Letter Hunt, streaks, and a treasure gift every day - Dress Anbessa in hats, scarves and capes earned by learning FOR FAMILIES - Family Voice: a grandparent anywhere in the world can record the letters in their own voice for your child - Voice postcards and share cards to celebrate milestones - The whole app works offline after the first download - perfect for travel and for keeping kids off the internet - App text in English, Amharic, Tigrinya, German, French, Italian, Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian FOR PARENTS AND TEACHERS - A parents dashboard (behind a grown-up gate) with letter mastery, trouble letters and practice tips - A full teacher mode: term plans, homework links over WhatsApp, a TV chant board for the classroom - no accounts needed PRIVACY FIRST - No ads. No accounts. No data collection. Everything stays on the device. The only things that ever leave it are the cards and files a grown-up explicitly shares. Includes gentle Bible story picture books in Tigrinya for young children. One purchase unlocks everything; no ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: eGeez at Free against Merhaba Tigrinya's $2.99. eGeez also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 43 months) and rating (4.5 vs 4.1). Merhaba Tigrinya's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and chart position (#190 vs unranked). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
eGeez is free to download; Merhaba Tigrinya costs $2.99 up front. eGeez sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Merhaba Tigrinya asks for nothing beyond the download.
eGeez holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Merhaba Tigrinya's written reviews are positive against 100% of eGeez's.
Merhaba Tigrinya ships an update every 43 months, eGeez every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Merhaba Tigrinya | eGeez |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (29 ratings) | 4.5 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 43 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #190 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 108 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bemnet Kibreab | Yosief Weldegebriel |
Customer experience
Merhaba Tigrinya
eGeez
In-app purchases
Merhaba Tigrinya
No in-app purchases
eGeez
- 3rd kid profile$2.49
- 4th kid profile$2.49
- 5th kid profile$2.49
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- 6th kid profile$2.49
- 2nd kid profile$4.99
- Prayer Books$9.99
- eGeez Core$12.99
- Core + Prayer Books$19.99









